Water Safety Symposium: Emerging Contaminants and Innovative Approaches to Water Purification
Water Safety Symposium: Emerging Contaminants and Innovative Approaches to Water Purification

Organizers:

J. Gurauskis (INMA - CSIC / UNIZAR), S. G. Mitchell (INMA - CSIC / UNIZAR), F. Silva (I3A, UNIZAR)


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Wednesday, May 06

19:30-21:00 Welcoming reception

Thursday, May 07

08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Welcome and introduction to the Water Safety Symposium
Symposium Organizing Committee: Jonas Gurauskis, Scott Mitchell, Filomena Silva and Mayor of Benasque: D. Manuel Mora
09:30-10:00 Water resources of the Pyrenees in the context of global change
Enrique Navarro
Session 1: Science for policy
Moderator: Alba De Martino
10:00-10:30 Legislating nanomaterials and micro and nano-plastics from a European perspective
Blanca Serrano Ramón
10:30-10:50 From water management to water resilience: a cross-sector innovation perspective
María Benito
10:50-11:30 Round table: Valuing the Water Cycle as a Global Common Good
Moderator: Alba De Martino, plus invited participants
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
Session 2: Water resources
12:00-12:20 UPSTREAM - circular and bio-based solutions for the ultimate prevention of plastics in rivers integrated with elimination and monitoring technologies
Ana Maria Lopez Sabiron
12:20-12:40 Rotating desk electrode enriched with nanoparticles for the detection of ultratrace amounts of bisphenol A in tap water
Nimat Shama
12:40-13:00 Advancing bio-based and biodegradable as more sustainable solutions to mitigate plastic and microplastic pollution in European river systems
Ana Maria Lopez Sabiron
13:00-13:20 Beyond classical treatment, permanent degradation of OMP with UVC-H2O2
Kaspar Kormelinck
13:20-15:00 Lunch break
Session 3: Emerging contaminants and Challenges
15:00-15:30 Characterizing and tracing micro and nano-plastics
Stefania Federici
15:30-15:50 Emerging contaminants in the industry (micro-, nano-plastics): tendencies and challenges for enforcement
María Alicia Cardete García
15:50-16:10 Tracking Microplastics in Rivers: Modeling Transport and Environmental Fate
Pablo Vallés
16:10-16:30 Spatial and temporal variability of microplastics in a lacustrine network in northern Spain
Inés de la Parra Muñoz
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
Session 3 (cont.): Emerging contaminants and Challenges
17:00-17:30 PFAS: novel toxicity mechanisms based on their surfactant properties
Patrick Allard
17:30-17:50 Current challenges in PFAS analysis: from sample preparation to regulatory compliance
Jana Kovacova
17:50-18:10 From urban wastewater to rivers: insights into the behaviour of pharmaceutical and antibiotic residues in the POCTEFA territory
Samuel Moles
18:10-18:30 Modelling the transport and fate of emerging contaminants in shallow water flows
Mario Morales Hernandez

Friday, May 08

Session 4: Advanced Materials for Water Purification
09:00-09:30 Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for water purification
Sara Rojas
09:30-09:50 Continuous photocatalytic removal of aclonifen using biocompatible Fe-MOFs
Jonathan Machí Hernández
09:50-10:10 Dual Adsorption–Thermal Regeneration Clay-Based Systems for Sustainable Elimination of Emerging Water Contaminants
Ahed Zyoud
10:10-10:30 Enzyme engineering for programmable immobilization on polyoxometalate-ionic-liquid–coated ceramic scaffolds for BHET removal from wastewater
Mariana Antonieta Armendariz Ruiz
10:30-10:50 Polyoxomolybdate-Based Hybrid Materials as Antimicrobial Surfaces to Prevent Biocolonization in Water Systems
Mariella Malefioudaki
10:50-11:30 Coffee break
Session 5: Smart Devices and Sensors
11:30-12:00 From Linear to Circular: Upcycling industrial by- products into sustainable Silicon Carbide (SiC) membranes for wastewater treatment (online)
Victor Manuel Candelario Leal
12:00-12:20 Design and computational fluid dynamic optimization of spiral passive filters for micro and nanoplastic separation in wastewater treatment
Jesus Antonio Fuentes García
12:20-12:50 MOFs & COFs: next generation materials for water remediation
Pedro García de Santos
12:50-13:10 Porous inorganic membranes functionalized with POM-ILs for the removal of micro- and nanoplastics from water
Nicolás Gracia Vallés
13:10-15:00 Lunch break
Session 6: Sustainable and Energy Efficient Approaches
15:00-15:30 Developing microbial approaches for plastic remediation (online)
Eva Sonnenschein
15:30-15:50 Metal removal from acidic zinc plating effluents using the invasive macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae
Catarina Luzia Pereira
15:50-16:10 Recovery of Phosphorus and Magnesium from wastewater using biochar obtained through pyrolysis of paper and pulp industry sludge
Saínza Arufe
16:10-16:30 TBC
TBC
16:30-16:40 Closing of the Water Safety Symposium
Symposium Organizing Committee: Jonas Gurauskis, Scott Mitchell, Filomena Silva